Somewhere around 900 words this morning I caught a cold, and by 1500 words I had to take some cold medicine, which has resulted in a very floaty head. I can't tell if it's now wearing off, causing my head to be newly floaty, or ... that's probably it, but man. Woogh.

Uh. Man. Having a hard time focusing. Took about 3 hours to get the first thousand words this morning, which was just awful. I seriously wanted to give up and just crawl into bed, which would have been extremely counterproductive. But now I think (I hope and pray) I've gotten through the sloggy bit and can charge on. Ended up with 5100 words after it all, so...well, thank God. :) Oh, and I hit 475 pages. *tired laugh* Yesterday shadowhwk said she could take a look at the part I was stuck at, if I wanted, and I was like, "Oh god no, it's already 450 pages long, that's too much to ask anybody to slog though," and she went, "!" and said, "I was thinking of the beginning part where you're having trouble," but sadly, I was starting at page 322, which would require a lot of slogging to get to. :)

I checked today. I do in fact, as I believed, use the left shift key almost exclusively. I couldn't find anything I used the right one for in the several sentences I Typed Like This To See Which Shift Key I Used While Making Up Words Like Zuggaboo To Check Letters I Don't Use That Much Because I Couldn't Think of Alpha Beta Carrot or whatever it is. :) But to make up for it, I only hit the spacebar with my right thumb. :)

wow. teh tired, teh tired.

Ted and I finished watching season 1 of Tru Calling, and are pre-emptively disappointed it got cancelled in season 2, because the season finale pretty much rocked, and set up a great antagonistic dynamic for Tru. We really enjoyed it. And we bought season 5 Smallville and accidentally watched the entire first DVD last night. Last night? Night before? Night before, I think. Ted worked last night. The days, they are blurring.

PS - I'm sorry, I am Teh Stupid (blame it on Teh Sickness, quick!) - but what is its meaning, this Miles to Isengard metric that clearly means so much? I understand and celebrate your ytd wordcount (wow indeed), but Isengard defeats me. 'Specially as you seem to be going backwards.

*laughs* The year Return of the King came out, some people started up a challenge to walk to Rivendell from Hobbiton as a thing to help encourage fitness. I'd just started walking for exercise, and it appealed to me, so I did that and then walked the rest of the way to Mount Doom, which is like 1700 miles or something. Once I got to Mount Doom I bounced back to the point where the party split up, and I'm currently doing Merry and Pippin's journey from Rauros Falls to Isengard. I'll probably do Gandalf and Merry's trip from Isengard to Minis Tirith next, and then I have to reboot to either Isengard or Rauros to do somebody else's leg of the journey. I plan to eventually walk all the journeys taken, including the road home, in the LotR & The Hobbit. :)

The reason the number is going backward is that I thought it was intuitive to record how many miles I've walked, not how many miles I have left. So I've walked, what, 309 miles to(ward) Isengard. Every few months somebody asks me why that number is going backward, so apparently it's only intuitive to me, but there you have it. :)

Offhand, I'd guess you haven't heard of it because you're not a female geek trying to lose weight, which seems to be the demographic for the Eowyn Challenge. :) But it is way cool, and for some reason it's really clicked for me, so I've continued to do it. I think the sum total of mileage in the books is something around 5 or 7K, so I've got a loooong way to go before I'm done walking Middle Earth. :)

I guess it'd make more sense to people who aren't me if I used 'miles toward Isengard', or whatever, but that doesn't sound as nice to my ear. And it's my record, so plthtbt on how other people do it. :)